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- Google CEO Sundar Pichai and cofounder Sergey Brin met with employees during an all-hands meeting on Thursday and discussed reports that Google planned to launch a censored search engine in China.
- Pichai told staff that the company is not close to launching a search product in China.
- The meeting grew tense as Pichai and Brin discovered someone was providing real-time reports on the meeting to a reporter.
On Thursday, in a meeting with employees, Google’s leadership addressed reports from earlier this month that the company had built a censored search engine in order to once again operate in China, according to Twitter posts from multiple reporters.
Kate Conger, a New York Times reporter posted to Twitter what she said were comments made during the meeting by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin, one of the company’s cofounders.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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